Advanced Trust-Building Exercise for Cohesive Teams - Trust Wave
Advanced Trust-Building Exercise for Cohesive Teams - Trust Wave is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Form two straight lines of people, facing each other and standing about 1-2 metres apart.
- Instruct these people to extend their arms out in front of them (parallel to the ground,) alternating their arms between the people opposite.
- Ask a volunteer to stand at least 10 metres from one of the ends of the two lines, looking straight down the middle.
- Upon issuing a series of agreed ‘Are-you-ready?’ commands, ask the volunteer to run at three-quarter pace directly towards the corridor between the two lines.
- The two lines of people aim to keep their arms outstretched until the very last moment the runner passes in front of them, when they rapidly flick their arms up out of the way.
- Runner is challenged to maintain an even pace through the corridor and to the end of the two lines before stopping, keeping their eyes open at all times.
- Trust Wave Advanced trust-building exercise creates thrills & sharpens reflexes.
- Trust Wave is an advanced trust-building exercise that creates a profound adrenaline-based experience and reveals individual responses to controlled risk and collective responsibility.
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Form two straight lines of people, facing each other and standing about 1-2 metres apart.
Ask a volunteer to stand at least 10 metres from one of the ends of the two lines, looking straight down the middle.
Upon issuing a series of agreed ‘Are-you-ready?’ commands, ask the volunteer to run at three-quarter pace directly towards the corridor between the two lines.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Advanced Trust-Building Exercise for Cohesive Teams - Trust Wave. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Form two straight lines of people, facing each other and standing about 1-2 metres apart.; Ask a volunteer to stand at least 10 metres from one of the ends of the two lines, looking straight down the middle.; Upon issuing a series of agreed ‘Are-you-ready?’ commands, ask the volunteer to run at three-quarter pace directly towards the corridor between the two lines.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
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